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Motif and CDE 2.1 Style Guide Reference
Selected Menu
Reference
Description
A Selected menu is a cascading choice that appears as a menu-bar item. It
provides access to choices that apply to the selected objects in the current
view.
When to Use
- Optional
- Provide a Selected menu when the window contains objects that may be
selected.
Guidelines
- Required
- In conjunction with the Menu Guidelines reference page, use Table 24 to decide which choices to include in the Selected menu and how to organize them.
Table 24. Selected Menu Choices
|
Mnemonic |
Menu Choice |
Keyboard Function |
Recommended |
S |
Properties |
Ctrl I |
Required |
N |
New |
Ctrl N |
Required |
O |
Open |
Ctrl O |
Recommended |
|
Copy To ... |
|
Recommended |
|
Move To ... |
|
Optional |
E |
Clear to Trash |
Delete (if no Delete to Trash) |
Required |
D |
Delete to Trash |
Delete |
Optional |
|
Print .. |
|
- Required
- Use Ctrl N and Ctrl O for the New and Open entries on the Selected menu
only if your application does not have a state or contents that needs to be
named and persistently stored.
- Required
- If your application manages and displays only one type of object that the
user can select, replace the Selected label with one naming the type of
object.
- Required
- Include type-specific choices at the bottom of the Selected menu that
apply to the types of objects selected. Add and remove type-specific choices
(rather than making those choices unavailable) as the selection changes.
- Recommended
- If there are a large number of type-specific choices, add type-specific
cascaded menus as necessary.
- Required
- Print out the contents of each of the selected objects when the user
chooses the Print choice on the Selected menu.
- Recommended
- Provide the Properties choice in the Edit menu if you do not provide a
Selected menu.
Essential Related Topics
For more information, see the Edit Menu, Menu Bar (Menu Type), Menu
Guidelines, New (Action Choice), Object, and Open (Choice) reference pages.
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